CVE-2024-20295

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection attacks on the underlying operating system and

Severity
High 8.8
CVSS 3.1
Adjacent, local or physical access what this means
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.012
66.4th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Vendor-published field
Published
Apr 24, 2024
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection attacks on the underlying operating system and elevate privileges to root. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have read-only or higher privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root.

Weakness: CWE-78

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Other Products cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (3)
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Computing System (Standalone)
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Computing System E-Series Software (UCSE)
  • cisco · unified_computing_system

Vendor advisory

cisco-sa-cimc-cmd-inj-mUx4c5AJ

Cisco Integrated Management Controller CLI Command Injection Vulnerability

Cisco’s rating: High (advisory CVSS 8.8) · Published Apr 17, 2024 · updated Jun 28, 2024 (revision 1.2)

Bug IDs: CSCwi10842 , CSCwi12864 , CSCwi29799

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